Swimming Between Worlds
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  • Published: 15 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780425282731
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $49.99
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Swimming Between Worlds

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3 Apr 2018
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From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement...

From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement...

Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as a local high school football hero, but returns in disgrace after being fired from a prestigious architectural assignment in West Africa. Yet the culture and people he grew to admire have left their mark on him. Adrift, he manages his father's grocery store and becomes reacquainted with a girl he barely knew growing up.

Kate Monroe's parents have died, leaving her the family home and the right connections in her Southern town. But a trove of disturbing letters sends her searching for the truth behind the comfortable life she's been bequeathed.

On the same morning but at different moments, Tacker and Kate encounter a young African-American, Gaines Townson, and their stories converge with his. As Winston-Salem is pulled into the tumultuous 1960s, these three Americans find themselves at the center of the civil rights struggle, coming to terms with the legacies of their pasts as they search for an ennobling future.
  • Published: 15 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780425282731
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $49.99
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Praise for Swimming Between Worlds

Early Praise for the Novel

"A smart and tender tale. I was left with admiration for Orr's exquisite prose along with an awareness of one simple truth: sometimes it takes living in another culture to better understand your own. A beautiful book."--Diane Chamberlain, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Silent Sister

"Orr's writing is lush and sensuous. [A] poignant and triumphant story."--Peggy Payne, author of Sister India

Praise for A Different Sun

"Lush, evocative, breathtaking in its descriptions, and deeply spiritual in its themes of love, forgiveness, and transformation, this extraordinary novel shines with light and depth. Reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver's magnum opus, The Poisonwood Bible, with elements of Joseph Conrad and Louise Erdrich, Orr's stunning debut is starkly beautiful and true to life."--Library Journal (starred review)

"As lyrical and passionate a novel as has ever been written, A Different Sun shines in the mind like a rare gem... A memorable and altogether original story."--Lee Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls

"Extraordinary... grips the imagination and doesn't let go."--Sena Jeter Naslund, New York Times bestselling author of The Fountain of St. James Court

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